I'm on call next week. I am told by several people (who would know the answer to my question) that we do NOT work on Christmas day. Not even in an emergency, where fixing a printer jam is the only thing that will prevent the device from detonating and save the city, no... not on Christmas. We leave that shit for John McClane, or Chuck Norris, or MacGyver, or some sort of Super-man. Or "double-O sheven".
So even if I get an after-hours call on 25 December, I am not to go. Difficult thing to convince a soldier to do, not go when called.
But SO HELP ME, if I get an after-hours call on Christmas Eve, I will be wearing a festive hat to that call, no matter where it is. Professionalism goes out the window if you take me away from my family on Christmas Eve. And I shall jingle all the bloody way, for my hat shall bear at least one bell.
Wednesdine.
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